“No other decorative device or object can accomplish so much per dollar as wallpaper.” That’s the midcentury decorator Michael Greer, writing in his gem of a book “Inside Design ...

Surrealism may long since have lost its subversiveness – but as the show proves, it can still be a lot of fun. The Design Museum, London W8 (020-3862 5900, designmuseum.org). Until 19 February ...

With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985 Through Nov. 28 at Hessel Museum of Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. (845) 758-7598 ...

The new Bushwick gallery International Objects — founded by Trang Tran, Matt Taber, Annaka Olsen, and Nate Heiges — is focused on work that’s somewhere between art and design, by Chen Chen ...

One hundred years ago, in the summer of 1925, over 16 million people visited Paris for an exhibition that celebrated modern design in art, architecture and household objects.

And it always surprises people. And then to create the artwork with found objects on purpose. Anybody can create art. If you’re using found objects, you don’t have to have any art experience.

The Prototype Pattern is a common creational design pattern whereby an object is cloned to create new objects. The pattern is traditionally used where creating a new instance of an object would be ...